Autumnal Solstice ......
22nd
September 2016 (Thursday)
.... the Autumnal Equinox, and the first
day of Autumn, when day and night are of equal length; from now the night’s get longer until the
Winter Solstice on Wednesday the 21st December.... then we look
forward to Spring. Forget winter ... it’s too cauld and wet
usually.
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| Elie this morning |
09.00 It was raining when I first looked out this
morning, but the rain has moved on, leaving us with blue patches, intermingled
with grey, in the sky now; a nice day
ahead. I won’t be able to do much in
the garden this morning today, because everything is wet; this means I’ll be able to take ‘time’ out’...
lucky boy.
21.30 It has been a ‘nice’ day,... in all
ways. This morning I did a wee bit of
‘work’ stuff .... I felt a ‘weakness’ developing after about five minutes ‘hard
work’ (looks impressive ... the words ‘hard’ and ‘work’ together ... here they
are again; “hard work”) so I thought
“Albert my boy .... you’d better get the bike out and go for a relaxing run!” I did this... and felt much better! In fact I’ve been ‘relaxing’ for most of
‘today’.
My first ‘relaxing run’ was up to Chapel Green
where I intended having my morning coffee on the Boss’s Seat, but I’d left the
flask in Ivy. Jimmy appeared... he
seems to morph out of the stone wall nowadays;
and we sat on “Alice’s Seat” admiring the view, and discussing the
merits of being ‘me’.... as in ‘Me’...
Albert! We didn’t linger on
this subject long.... being as being ‘me’ is a tricky’ job, and more or less
meritless! I went orf to Ivy to put
on the kettle, Jimmy would follow in his car.
Somewhere in between, Chapel Green and Ivy, Jimmy met Shona, who was out
on her bike, so she joined us at Ivy for our morning cuppa. The three of us then discussed the merits
of being ‘me’... again, ... and came up with the same answer. Basically, being ‘me’, is a step into the
unknown every morning; in spite of all
the ‘plans’ I make.
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| SEDCO 711 - drilling rig moored in Largo Bay |
Jimmy
and Shona took orf, leaving me to contemplate the stress of having to be ‘me’,
on my own. I fell asleep in the Hutte
.... and woke up, starving. I ate
something... and felt better.
The
‘Drop in Cafe’ was excellent .... Honor had an interesting newspaper cutting
all about the history of ANZAC biscuits:
I write ‘Honor had’ because I have the cutting
now. Honor’s table was very quiet today... Lexie’s
was not.
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| Earlsferry this evening |
Plan
for tomorrow: not yet formulated! The weather is forecast to be ‘gorgeous in
the morning ... less gorgeous in the afternoon, with rain (perhaps) in the evening. There are 93 days left until Christmas ...
all of them shopping ones.
Photographs
: Top – Elie this morning. Breakwater
House (the white one, was very important to Jimmy and me when we were
sailing; we aimed for it when coming
back from North Berwick! ... Middle – SEDCO 711, the north most drilling rig
anchored in Largo Bay, and Bottom – Earlsferry this evening.
